Friday saw us at breakfast as usual, then the grocery store, then after lunch we were out in the garden spiffing things up after a week of work. Dinner was grilled shrimp, corn on the cob, and vegetables on the BBQ. It was a nice day.
Saturday morning we welcomed friend Jan and her friend Debra to tour our garden. Jan obviously talks to others, praising our garden. Debra wanted to see it and we finally made that happen. It's nice to be able to walk around and see your creation through other's eyes. They wanted, and got, a guided tour of everything.
In the afternoon we visited two other people's gardens as part of the Northwest perennial Alliance Open Gardens program.
Then Saturday night we watched the movie "Remarkably Bright Creatures". Connie of Far Side wanted to know how we liked it because she liked the book much better. It has been a while since I read the book, and I really liked the movie. I think the movie did a great job of replicating the setting and the characters. However I think a book will always have an advantage over a movie. You live with a book much longer. Characters are more fully developed and explained. A book gives more details and nuances. You supply your own mind movie. So, my recommendation: read the book and then see the movie. You'll love both. And as Marcellus the Octopus said in the ending, sometimes even humans can be remarkably bright creatures!
On Sunday I actually got out of our garden and went for a walk in the park. It has been a while. The Golden Chain Trees were in bloom.
I finished the book "I Have Some Questions For You" and it left me with a few questions. Books and movies have endings. Life just goes on to the next chapter. This book and that movie both could have many more chapters. That said, I really liked the book once I got into it. It's different that most mysteries, and that's good.
Now it's Monday afternoon. The dryer just buzzed to announce the last load of laundry. It's towels, easy to fold. Tom has the heavy housework done. I dusted. The holiday weekend is ending. Many folks are working their way home. We stayed put. For some school is ending and summer is beginning. For all of us it's just the next chapter.
My reading is close to nothing these days. My movie watching is nothing. It shouldn't be that way.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your thoughts on the book and the movie. My expectations might have been too high for the movie:) Those trees are so very pretty!
ReplyDeleteOur peonies are late, but over a foot talk now and beginning to show buds. I love the aroma but they don't last as long as if like.
ReplyDeleteYour walking areas are so lovely. The blooms on the trees are so pretty!
The Laburnum are stunning!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! It makes the dreariness and cold of winter disappear!
ReplyDeleteWe don’t have any more peonies blooming and so is the laburnum. Roses are in full bloom now. I am also reading these days as I don’t go out because too much heat for me!
ReplyDeleteMusings: OMG! I just wrote on your later post that I’ve heard Remarkably Bright Creatures is supposed to be good. I shall have to see the movie and read the book, I guess. I just finished reading Project: Hail Mary which explains more of what the movie left out.
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